Washington, Dubois and Douglass

Since I have been away with the Gap Singers I did not attend the last class period on Friday.
Douglass: he was the first black who wrote about his life as a slave and described how miserable and unequal it was. He wrote about how bad his master treated him and the other slaves and about the cruelty of slavery.
He wrote about his heavily disagreement of the idea of slavery and names good reasons for his opinion.
Washington: Booker T. Washington was the first public offender of slavery and tried politically to change the situation of black people in the South. The result of his effort is the Atlanta Compromise. As the name says it was not a law forbidding the discrimination of blacks in the South but a compromise in which he had to agree with many disadvantages black people would have in comparison to white people, for example the right to vote or the abandonment of receiving higher education.He, for example, wanted white people to give factory jobs to black people instead of the masses of immigrants that came during this time. If he agreed to those conditions because he really thought the black race was "lower" than the white race or if he just thought people of this time were just not ready for totally equality between blacks and whites is not fully clear to me. 
Dubois: Dubois respected Washington's work. However, he disagreed and criticized in many points of his work and the Atlanta Compromise. As a Harvard educated sociologist he wanted completely equality for blacks. In his speech  The Souls of Black Folk he criticized the discrimination of blacks in the South by white people. He wants the right for black people to vote and access to higher education. He was kind of a radical fighter for the right and the equality of the black people in the United States of America, especially in the South where the conditions for blacks during this time were horrible.